Sentence examples for On its authority from inspiring English sources

Congress can't base it on its authority to "fix the Standard of Weights and Measures".

The report was historic not just because it was the first time that the Mexican government had acquiesced to such an intrusion by foreigners on its authority but, I think, it was also the first time Mexicans had ever seen a real criminal investigation, conducted by independent and autonomous justice professionals rather than by those subservient to a possibly complicit government.

Ofsted is facing a crisis in public confidence as it comes under a series of attacks on its authority this week, with the watchdog accused of being "flawed, wasteful and failing".

Incidentally, this was also an issue where, perhaps for the first time, Parliament showed what it was capable of and truly stood on its authority.

An all-powerful assembly of loyalists of President Nicolás Maduro rules the country with few limits on its authority, vowing to pursue political opponents as traitors while it rewrites the Constitution in the government's favor.

This article examines limitations on its authority when twisting is required to attain the desired shapes.

"Having sought no stay, either in this Court or the Court of Appeals, the State appears to believe it can issue one on its own authority," the motion reads.

Instead, it posts a hodgepodge of different topics and focuses on building its authority.

The Federal agency that regulates commodity futures says it is ready to review its role in that market with politicians and rivals bent on clipping its authority.

The State Department has issued mixed signals on where its authority ends.

This paradox when what gives an NGO authority on one scale also weakens its authority on another scale helps explain how NGOs can be seen as an authority on particular causes on a global scale, but then fail to effect change at the local level.